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@with tetes getraut @fitte R. H. GORDON, SR., OF BROOKLYN, OHIO. Letters Patent No. 73,525,1ated January 21, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOE AD GARDEN-BAKE COMBINED.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that I. R. H. GORDON, Sr., of Brooklyn, in the county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoe and Garden-Rake Combined, and Potato-Digger; and .I do hereby declare that the following is a. full and complete description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making `n. part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view.

Figure 2 is a rear view.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the views. f

This implement is constructed of the form shown in lig. 1, and can be used either as a hoe, rake, orl potato-digger.

A are the teeth, which consist of the Shanks E and ilukes B, the shanks being curved round, and form a part of or are secured to the headC, towhich the handle is connected in4 the ordinary way, the cutting-edge of the teeth being formed on the end and sides'of the dukes. These lteeth are enlarged or widened, as shown., from the point a to a', and then decrease or narrow down to the shank, thus leaving a space, D, in the rear of the lukes, large enough for small weeds, tc., to drop through, so as not to clog the rake, as hereafter described.

. When this rake is used for weeding, the end of the teethiis used for cutting them up, the side of the dukes I cutting the larger ones, or they can be taken and compressed between4 the dukes where the space contracts, thus preventing the weeds from passing beyond the linkes, and drawing them up from the ground bodily, and any dirt or weeds resting on the Shanks can be thrown or shaken oi. with theweeds pillled up, as described.

In digging potatoes, the small ones can be lifted on the end of the' teeth, which will pass the iukes and drop through the space D, the same as the Weeds before referred to, the larger ones resting between the shanks of the teeth, which can then be thrown oli'.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure byrLetters Patent, isp v 4 A combined hoe and rake; constructed with dukes B, enlarged or widened at the point a', and provided with the Shanks E, in the 4manner as and for the purpose specified. v

R. H. GORDON, sa.

Witnesses: l

W. H. BURRIDGE, J. HOLMES. 

